Phinney Ridge vs. Greenwood (A Tale of Two Sandwich Boards)

• Gregory Marsden

• Phinneyites? Phinney-ians? I personally like "Phinneysians"

• Phinney has crosswalks, Greenwood needs them. Greenwood has awnings that make it hard to see business store fronts. Greenwood needs canopies of trees lifted.

• Lived in em both, love em both. Don't see how you can separate the two. Everything from the zoo to 87th is Greenwood/Phinney (one big nutty family) in my book. BTW, anyone who complains about Safeway now should have seen the place 7 years ago before they tore it down and built the new one. You have NOOOOOO idea what it used to be like.

• No sir, Ken's is not for sale. It is expanding, however.

• And from what I heard from someone I know who worked at Kens Market, the Phinney-ians have something else that the Greenwoodians don't have, a super snobbish attitude. I'll take Safeway and The Barronoff over Kens Market anyday... Kens is for sale, btw

• We Phinneyites will cross over into the no-sidewalk zone for $3 well drinks, on occasion.

• Phinney Ridge is always trying to prove that it's as nice, or nicer than Queen Anne, while also trying to claim Greenlake as part of its territory. Greenwood's too busy wondering where all the graffiti is coming from to worry about it's standing vis a vis Phinney. It's Northwest Heart Goes Out To You Forever.

• La Botana kicks ass. Whole fried fish! Amazing chili rellenos!

• La Botana kicks ass. Whole fried fish! Amazing chili rellenos!

• the sandwich board comparison sums it up well. On the bright side we have a homey greenwood market, a vacated mcdonalds, a vacated tullys, a throwbacks for a freddys, a future brewery pub, a core street intersection, all giving GW dinstinction and funky uniqueness. In deference to the oddest of odd street platting, the southbound GW Ave approach to 85th swerves you around making a perfect Chamber slogan: Greenwood - A little bent but not out of shape.

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